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“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTIMATE THE ABILITY OF ARTISTS TO INVENT AN AESTHETIC TO MASK THE PRESENCE OF EVIL.”
— Lawrence R. Spencer, 2012 —
Category Archives: ART
Paintings, photography, aesthetic objects, beautiful communication, and anything I consider to be art, artful, artistic, artsy or whatever.
Art is subjective. It is a quality of communication can be contributed to by the viewer through empathy or agreement with its creator.
MADNESS
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Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixano, an hidalgo (lower class of Spanish nobility) who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote’s rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood.
Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the “best literary work ever written”, and has been translated into more languages than any book other than the Bible. — (ref: Wikipedia.org)
THE COLORLESS SHADE
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“Ghosts do exist. Death does not finish all. The colorless shade escapes the burnt-out pyre.”
— Sextus Propertius – The Elegies ( c 50 BC – 16 BC )
RESPECT THE PLANET
FEELING ELEPHANTS
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“I took an elective course just for the (bleep) of it. It was called Intimate Interpretations of Einstein’s Unified Field Theory. The instructor was a former room-mate of Al Einstein from when Al worked in the patent office in Switzerland from 1902 to 1909. His name was Professor Hans Schlongholder. This is how he explained Einstein’s theory to our class in his cheesy, Swiss accent:
“The universe, or any other relative reality, is like a group of people, each of whom is blindfolded. Each person is feeling a different part of an elephant. Each person describes the part of the elephant he feels. Al’s theory says that if everyone compares what they feel and they all agree on a collective feeling of the elephant, then they will all have an accurate picture of the whole elephant.
However, Al was never really quite sure that the picture of the elephant we were getting was of the hole, or the trunk. It all depends on which end of the elephant one is feeling and how fast he is traveling while feeling it, relative to the speed of the elephant itself and how the elephant feels about being felt at the time”.
Transcendentally speaking, in order to understand any universe one must look at the word itself: UNIVERSE. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words, “univ” and “erse.” Does anyone understand what these words really mean? No. So, is it any mystery why the mysteries of the universe have never been solved?” — Excerpt from THE BIG BLEEP by Lawrence R. Spencer